From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 21:20: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:20:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AE937B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBI5K4005248; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:20:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:20:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Philip J. Koenig" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet idiosyncracies Message-ID: <20001217232004.A367@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3A3D2BA3.16581.2B69C4@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <3A3D2BA3.16581.2B69C4@localhost>; from "Philip J. Koenig" on Sun Dec 17 21:09:55 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 17), Philip J. Koenig said: > I have an HP Procurve switch that I periodically use telnet to > access. It is "menu driven" insofar as it uses the cursor keys to > activate menus, and it makes much use of reverse-video to highlight > choices in the menus as you cursor up/down. > > When I telnet to this box from the FreeBSD console, it's not > interpreting this correctly and I can't see any obvious telnet > options that would fix it. What I see are the string "25l" appearing > at the end of lines when I use the cursor key, and sometimes all over > the screen. It's ignoring your TERM variable setting and sending vt100 escape codes. Netware servers do the same thing when you try to telnet to them. Whenever I have to telnet to something that doesn't recognize cons25, I do it under screen (ports/misc/screen). Hasn't let me down yet (and yes, I have HP Procurve switches, so it'll definitely work in your case). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message